[Unclear pruritic and urticarial skin inflammation. Bed bug attack]

Hautarzt. 2013 Mar;64(3):187-9. doi: 10.1007/s00105-012-2499-4.
[Article in German]

Abstract

A 27-year-old woman presented with severe pruritus for a few weeks and diffuse urticarial erythema with pinhead-sized papules over the entire body. The skin lesions occurred directly after a stay in her secondary residence in London. The medical history, clinical picture and histological feature of an arthropod reaction in the skin biopsy, coupled with patient offering a bed bug specimen as evidence, secured the diagnosis of a cimicosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Bedbugs*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Insect Bites and Stings / complications
  • Insect Bites and Stings / diagnosis*
  • Insect Bites and Stings / parasitology*
  • Pruritus / diagnosis*
  • Pruritus / parasitology*
  • Urticaria / diagnosis*
  • Urticaria / parasitology*